Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis